1955 LIFE Magazines For Sale

Special issue - Food, a $93 billion market
basket. Charming full page color Cannon towel ad inside
front cover, with big stack of lots of different colors
and patterns of towels. Ways to cut down kitchen work
- basically "buy already prepared foods" and
organize your kitchen, a neat look at the kitchen of
1955. Wonderful artistic aerial views of crop lands,
including Frederick Schroeder's dairy farm in Wisconsin,
photos by the famous Margaret Bourke-White. New York,
the biggest appetite (1/12th of all food consumed in
the USA), shows warehousing, food-distribution, more.
Sockeye salmon in the Fraser River in British Columbia.
The Supermarket. Biggest vegetable factory on earth,
Seabrook farms, includes cool color photo of vegetables
in trays. The farmer and his government, features Fred
Bruene and his family farm in Iowa. Traditional American
food (dishes) with recipes. Indigestion amid all this
plenty - with the great comic drawings of Robert Osborn.
Fun article on the Noonday break, lunch, including John
Ronayne, Angela Lansbury, John M. Lambert, Mrs. Billie
Ryan, chuck Haines, Emil Kantola, and others. World's
corniest building, Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota.
Lettuce growing. Dr. Samuel Sheppard is convicted of
murder. Earthquake in California. How beef gets to a
beef-eating nation. Fastest man on the face of the earth
- John P. Stapp at 632 Mph in rocket propelled sled. Very Good - $28 Good - $18

Life Magazine
January 10, 1955 : Cover - Greta Garbo in 1928.

Candid Biography of Garbo - Part 1 of 3. Cave conservationists
Nicholas wins a nobel prize (other prize winners also
listed). Scientists speak on future and security. Neat
piece about the lavish movie set for "20,000 leagues
under the sea." French say Yes to WEU (Western
European Union treaty) after vetoing the EDC. U.S. gets
the tennis Davis cup, photos include Vic Seizas, Ken
Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Bill Talbert, others. A nice piece
about the Katsanevas family reunion in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Full page color Franco-American Spaghetti sauce
ad with very elegant meal setting. Two page Rexall drug
store ad with lots of items, all with prices. The slithering
self-portrait of Dick Ket. Spokane's new coliseum. Biggest
Bingo game in Ottawa, Lions Club. Another neat full
page color Jell-o ad, this one with a happy cat. Underwater
premiere of the movie "Underwater." Kiwi -
surviving fossil. Very funny pictures from Ready-Crete
business in Milwaukee, a well-done spoof on big business,
Douglas Bournique and Robert McBRide. Neat color fashion
section. Neat idea - Hal Belknap of Norman, Oklahoma
does the same birthday party every five years - invites
all the same people, photos as they age.Very Good - $35 Good - $25 Fair (Generally Good, but has a
taped cover tear (taped on back), small library stamp on chin and more inside) - $9

World's great religions,
Part 1 - Hinduism. Very nice two page color 1955 Ford
ad with many different cars : Fairlane series, Customline
series, Mainline series, Station wagon series. Full
page color Pepsi-Cola ad with art by Len Steckler. Faces
of the Formosan crisis. F-84 Thunderjet takes off from
special launching truck, a mobile tiny airfield. The
amazing Serge Manuel Rubinstein, man of many talents,
most of them shady. Neat photo of runner Mal Whitfield
doing a stretch. An American Bittern (bird) in New York
City. Full page photo of a retrospectively horrible
ice-skating costume made the 546 white fox tails! Sad
downfall of Vladimir Dedijer, Yugoslav war hero. Age
of the A-plane - US moves ahead on atom-powered flight.
Building to be built in Grand Junction, Colorado for
Lucien Cullen and Welborn Foreman will pivot to avoid
sun, architect Jared Morse. Charming story about Barney,
a pet moose, Marvin Mayfield family in British Columbia.
Age of the atomic plane, illustrated by Rolf Klep. Vladimir
Dedijer, Ygoslavian war hero. Feature article on bowling,
includes Joe Kristof, Dorothy Crouch, Merle Matthews,
Sylvia Wene, Ed Lubanski, Marion Ladewig. Nice two page
color Oldsmobile ad with three cars. Nice full page
color movie poster ad for Jane Russell in "Underwater!" Very Good - $26 Good - $14 Fair (All Good, nice, but
has a spine end water mark) - $8

Life Magazine
February 14, 1955 : Cover - Wayne Miller's family,
part of "The family of man - a photo exhibit"
by Edward Steichen.

Historian Stefan Lorant puts Lincoln
photographs in age order - 27 photos of Lincoln. Mystery
of Anastasia - daughter of Czar Nicholas II - profile.
The US as a winter wonderland, great photos. Full page
color Jell-o ad with Mountain Goat. Young Shad of Iran
visits Miami for a vacation. Sad photo of Larry Maryland,
who was coasting downhill in his homemade skate car
when a car hit him. Artist Dong Kingman tours the world
and records his art on 40 painted scrolls. Democrat
Sam Rayburn and Republican Joe Martin share duties as
Mr Speaker. Full page Post Toasties ad with young boy.
Full page color National Bohemian Beer ad. Amazing Seahorse
mating photos. New details of Lincoln Life by Robert
Wallace and James Hickey. Full page B&W Wildroot
Cream-Oil Hair Tonic ad featuring Fearless Fosdick by
Al Capp. Photos of Ski champion Jill Kinmont ski crash.
Dogs primp for Westminster Kennel Club Show. Marguerite
Piazza in Faust in New Orleans. Double Decker party
bus in California. Very attractive full page color V-8
ad with art by John Howard. Back Cover Lucky Strike
ad featuring Van Johnson. Very Good - $54

Life Magazine March
7, 1955 : Color cover - Rangoon Buddha.

World's
great religions, Part 2 - Buddhism, large feature article
with color photos. Disney version of weightlessness
in outer space, cartoons, it says Walt Disney is the
Cartoonist. Handsome two page color Eureka Roto-matic
vacuum, the round kind you drag along with you.. Here's
a product not much advertised, Owens-Corning Fiberglas
instantiation with full page color scene of home construction.
Guided intercontinental missile (with neat art by M.
Ramus) that could strike US from bases 7,000 miles away
in Russia. SEATO takes first step. Police kill psychopathic
August Robles in Harlem as crowd watches. How wiretapping
is accomplished - just elect the right man for the job.
Venerable steamboat Ti takes last trip. Johannesburg,
South Africa - police forcibly move Negroes to carry
out apartheid. Full page color Campbell's soup ad with
the most lovely, succulent asparagus art ever. Widow
of the famous Fath brings out successful spring couture
line in Paris. Funny ski photo (tracks go past tree
on either side) stemming from International meet for
disabled skiers in Kitzbuhel, Ernst Muller and Andreas
Schopf. Clown Emmett Kelly portrayed by Henry Fonda.
Hollywood gets a new star, youngster James Dean. Horace
Dodge Jrs. celebrate two year anniversary with a $16,000
party. Howard County, Texas 4-H clubbers and their cattle
van, including Sonny Choate, Wanda Boatler. Another
variation on the full page color Kellogg's Corn Flakes
ad with cereal box art by Norman Rockwell. Photo of
Stag on roof in Forest of Orleans. Very Good - $42 Good - $32

World's great religions, Part 3 - Religion in
the land of Confucius, China, includes Buddhism and
Taoism. Full page color Van Heusen shirts ad with the
brave man Tony Curtis in a very pink shirt. Sir Winston
Churchill's life is reviewed in pictures and described
in his own words. Half page America Fore Insurance Group
ad with nice art of a motorcycle policeman. Valery Alexandrovich
Lysikov defects from East Germany to West Germany. Great
article on Montgomery Ward and the chain of stores,
Louis E. Wolfson (see LIFE September 6, 1954 and November
22, 1954) is trying to take over from Sewell L. Avery.
Rocking chair contest in Lauzon, Quebec - including
Gerard Labrecque and Raymong Robitaille. Nice full page
Precision Radiation Instruments ad with Blanton Burford
and uranium prospecting. Fledgling fashion designer
Janet Leigh. A fun article with cute photos - Psychologist
Keller Breland and wife teach animals strange tricks
in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mary Martin telecasts Peter
Pan on TV. Stanky and the St. Louis' Cardinals. Full
page color Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal ad with rice
krispies as a culinary work of art. World War II prisoner
starved by the Nazis thrives in Port Washington, Wisconsin
- Joe Demler, sequel to April 16, 1945. The College
Quiz board, a radio show, with photos of (Colgate and
Cornell teams ) Paul Schmidt, Marty Heyert, Jim Wachtell,
Bruce Richmond, Keith Johnson, Tony Kovner, Al Natapoff. Nice long article about the St. Louis Cardinals baseball
team, with lots of photos. Curious little story about
a device to see how quickly you can jump out of the
way of a speeding car, Jump-to-it-ometer. Excellent - $34 Good - $10 Fair (All Very Good, but cover
is rubbed) - $7 Fair (Generally Good, but
last pages have a water marked corner) - $6

Life Magazine INTERNATIONAL Edition April 4, 1955 : Color cover - Vigil at Indian Festival of LIghts (The same cover as the February 7, 1955 regular issue of LIFE). Photos of 62 year-old Flamenco dancer Escudero showing how he uses his hands in the dance. The world's great religions, part 1 Hinduism, includes great 3 page spread artwork by Artzybasheff.. A rocket Russia may have, intercontinental missile. Teacher photogrpahs report card day, Renton, Washington, Emmons Williams, James Woodcock, Maurine Warren, David Razwick, Gary Fulcher, Dianna Harris, Timothy Minnich, Cheryl Pond, Sandra Wilson, David Leech, great piece. Co-captains in Ford's battle for supremacy, car design, Henry Ford II and Ernest R. Breech., Skyscrapers as art. The vanishing table, dining tables fold-out from other furniture, Saginaw Furniture Shop. Mystery on skis, ski track with tree in the middle, one-legged skiers Ernst Muller and Andreas Schopf. The most famus nose in sport, boxer Rocky Marciano. John Foster Dulles visits many parts of Asia. The movie "Underwater" and the furor with poster model Lyn Jones and actress Jane Russell. Bloddy Israeli raid on Gaza, Egypt. Full page Triumph T.R.2 Sports car ad. Photo of two men falling from a helicopter during a rescue from floods. Full page color Aldrin & dieldrin ad, insecticide from Shell, Desert Locust.Good - $68

Full page Ethyl
Corporation ad in the series "Road Birds"
- Screeching Tern. The Olivetti Corporation sets up
a typewriter on the sidewalk and LIFE records what happens
and what is typed. Full page movie poster ad for "Run
for Cover" with James Cagney, unusual layout. Big
feature on Polio and the Salk vaccine, one photo shows
huge numbers of computer punch cards that are part of
statistical analysis. Lucky 19 of 23 survive aircraft
crash off the coast of Oregon. Oscar winners. Modern
designers enliven the ancient craft of stained-glass
windows - in churches. What goes on inside atomic submarine.
Antarctic visit of U.S. Navy ship U.S.S. Atka breaks
ice for an international expedition - big new push to
study antarctica. England's Don Campbell seeks water
speed record by jet boat, Lake Ullswater. Two new store
mannequins are nearly exact copies of little girls,
Tucker Burns and Carol Bancker. Stair-climbing wheel-chair,
features Nicholas Saggio. Full page color United States
Brewers Foundation beer ad with art by Douglass Crockwell,
number 106. Brooding chicken photographed from underneath.
England's rich Lady Docker. Chicago slums - photo essay,
includes area near the Palmolive building, map showing
area, Mornice GArrett and her seven children, Julian
Levi, Jack Meltzer, more. Another nice Imperial whiskey
ad, full page in color, art by Sloan, featuring Patrick
Ellam, tiny Sopranino boat. Home movie kit for kids.
One of those great LIFE photos showing Raymond Stevens
sweeping on the surface of the English Channel.
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Life Magazine
April 18, 1955 : Color Cover - Frigate's figurehead.

Full page color Packard ad. Sir Winston Churchill resigns
as prime minister. Academy Award presentations for 1954
movies - great photos. Miami birthday party for twins.
Fashion profile of designer Mainbocher. Dust storms
and agricultural trouble in the west, includes W.W.
Rich and son Bob and Vivian Rich (Lamar, Colorado),
farmers Ed Fritch, Clayton Carpenter, Henry Itsell (Michigan),
others. Full page color Goetz Country Club Malt Liquor
ad. Mugsy and Splash - dog and Porpoise play together.
Wow - cool photo of bridge man Bunny Warren walking
along support cable of a natural gas pipeline over the
Mississippi River, no safety line! America's arts and
skills - early American tools and art Part I, great
examples of early art and architecture. Cat on a hot
tin roof - Broadway play with Barbara Bel Geddes and
Ben Gazzara. Annual Out Island Regatta - great sailing
photos. Defend Quemoy and Matsus by General James A.
Van Fleet. Police chief Francis McManus puts down teen
Rock and Roll parties. Full page color Maidenform bra
ad. First drive in church in Venice Florida. Full page
color Pepsi-Cola ad featuring redhead model art by Meyers.
Full page color ad for New Mexico tourism - nice illus
of Carlsbad cavern. Full page color Early Times whisky
ad with art of Mammoth Cave. Back page color Chesterfield
ad with Leo Durocher, baseball. Art Robinson builds
a flying saucer of sorts, pilot Phil T. Johnston flies
it. Photo of Dave Wagenvoord golfing in Korea with an
audience. The Great Georgia Bowen cares for 11 handicapped
or underprivileged foster children in her home in Columbus,
Ohio. Photo of Jim Beren with his own arrow heading
back toward him, pheasant hunting, archery.Very Good - $28 Good - $18

Great religions, Part 4 - the world of
Islam - 20 page photo feature, includes Mecca, Haj,
Jerusalem, women in purda, ramadan, more (best LIFE
coverage of Islam). Another cute Ethyl "Road Birds
ad, this one full a "Bent-Wing Thrasher."
Battle in Saigon, Vietnam's civil war - multiple pages
of photos. Full page color Cutex nail polish ad with
absolutely lovely gown. One brand of Polio vaccine is
banned after some children come down with polio, photos
include Stephen Coleman (Colorado), Jim Shipley Jr (Idaho).
Milan's sparkling fair draws giant crowds on 33rd birthday.
Michigan students erect a Meccano-like steel building,
University of Michigan and new Unistrut which looks
like a jungle gym. Full page color United States Brewers
Foundation beer ad with art by Haddon Sundblom, number
107. . Extremely cute full page color Jantzen sunclothes
ad. Chain-driven toy railroad for backyards, Yardbird
on track by Doepke. Hanford buries radioactive waste
in atomic cemetery. Philadelphia horsy set raises money
for US Olympic equestrian team with a humorous horse-less
fundraiser. American divers in Haiti bring up what may
be the anchor of the Santa Maria. Fashions - swimsuits
for sleeping. Good candid photo of two track runners
losing a shoe at the same time, Henry Wiebe (Newton
HIgh) and Richard Graves (Arkansas City).Good - $18 Fair (All Good, but cover
edge faded) - $9

The chances for peace in 1955, an expert evaluation.
New island will be first link in US offshore radar warning
chain, first of "Texas Towers".Fred Cloutier gives up
suicide attempt on railroad trestle at Auburn, Maine.
More on the atomic test blast. Tense time on a Winnipeg
TV tower, Norman Fennell. Color film records Atomic
blast ruin. Full page color Campbell's soup ad with
the most luscious tomatoes ever. A parched Oklahoma
town pray and dresses up for rain, Hobart, Oklahoma
including Jim Bledsoe, Graham Hodge, Julius Rule. Photo
essay - America's Arts and Skills, Part 2, the look
of liberty in craftsmanship. Gruesome photo of bloody
Singapore detective. Photo essay - Spring on a farm,
includes Tommy Pearson, Berkeley Pearson farm (Middletown
Valley, Maryland), Margy Pearson and Pete Fawley, others.
. Dead end for the US highway. France's dressmakers
turn a hand to playclothes. Colby undergrads dedicate
a cleanup day to president emeritus (Franklin W. Johnson)
who did most to get new campus built. Film version of
"The Seven Year Itch" gives a reassuring answer to a
burning question about Marilyn Monroe. Boxing photo
of Rocky Marciano and surprise contender Don Cockell.
Grace Kelly's Riviera romance with Jean-Pierre Aumont.
US and USSR Elbe veterans reunite in Moscow. Charming
full page color Kellogg's Corn Flakes ad with art by
Stevan Dohanos. Herd of cattle owned by Denver patrolman
Robert Thiede get loose. Huge chair at Bestever Upholstery
Company of Franklin Square, Long Island with 17 kids
playing on it. Full page color Canadian club whisky
ad inside back cover with people in Austria "White
water skiing" or Ski-yaking.Very Good - $26 Good - $14

Another fun "Road Birds"
ad for Ethyl gasoline, Wild Flicker. New Russian Air
Force. Russian sports. Cameron Hawley on De Sapio -
a city boss goes national. Excellent full page Bell
Telephone ad with four little old ladies and a flat
tire "Not a man in sight..." Tornadoes in
Midwest, photos include a number from Udall, Kansas
(incl. aerial view) , a house and church in Blackwell,
Kansas, more.. Eden's win brings joy to Tories and woe
to Labor. Nice photo of the British Epsom Downs Derby
horse race. Photo of just-separated siamese twins Deborah
and Christine Andrews. Revlon has a neat new concept
with this two page ad for a hair spray that is like
a days-long temporary permanent. Enlarged NATO gets
family picture taken. New town elevator eases Oregon
City's split-level living. Venus in Central Park has
a short public life. Free balloonists have a gasbag
gala in Holland, gas filled, not hot air. Chateaux country
of Loire valley - photo essay. Latest Soviet jet models
- photo essay. Tammamny's Carmine De Sapio. Little Hofstra
College and their lacrosse team, including Joe Masone,
Ed Aydt, Jack Fahey, and more. Julie Sheldon, swimming
toddler, plays under water, includes photo of tricycle
ride at bottom of pool. Very humorous half-page Black
and white and blue Spun-lo panties ad featuring woman
skiing in her underwear - shows ski gear very well,
too.Good - $32 Fair (All Good, but cover
loosening on staples) - $15 Fair (All Good, but outer few pages are water marked in the spine margin only) - $14 Fair (Generally Good, but has small library stamps throughout) - $10

The world's great
religions, Part 5 - Judaism. Letter and photo pertaining
to bicycle built for ten, built in Wltham, Massachusetts.
Freedom's first precious moments for Red-held US fliers,
Harold Fischer Jr., Edwin Heller, Lyle Cameron and Roland
Parks. Increase in family-owned small motorboats, great
crowded boating photos. As Ford negotiations went into
showdown stage, one auto worker's family shows why UAW
fights for a guaranteed annual wage, Sophie and John
Michalewicz. American rides the crest of a motorboating
boom, including photos of Lloyd Kirk family, more. Four
old oaks go into Old North Church's new tower. Postojna
Caves in Bulgaria host a concert. Full page color Shell
Motor Oil ad with loggers cutting a giant redwood. Photo
essay - A Seattle father sees his child born, John Stouffer.
N.A.A.C.P.'s Thurgood Marshall, legal leader in the
fight for desegregation. Full page color Modess ad with
the most stunning pale pink gown. Baylor drama students
act out abstraction for final exam. What really happened
in fatal Indianapolis race car crash where Bill Vukovich.
Nice full page color Anchor glass ad with Fire-King,
Golden Anniversary and more. Neat two page color De
Soto car ad with green and white Fireflite Sportsman.
Lovely full page Pepsi-Cola ad with art by Robert Levering.
Full page color King's Ransom whisky ad with curious
lockeroom scene, art by Valentine. Good - $22

Life Magazine June
20, 1955 : Color cover - Two dancing girls at
the Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas - is the boom
overextended? The war on virus diseases, Salk's new
goals. Another absolutely lovely full page color V-8
juice ad with art by John Hancock. Five candidates in
race for governor vow to uphold segregation (!). An
exiled Tunisian hero returns in triumph, Bourguiba.
Horrible photo of the inferno that used to be the Swedish
oil tanker Johannishus. Photo essay - New shine for
the circus. A visit to the haunts of Walt Whitman, America's
first great modern poet. Detroit zoo apes get modern
furniture in a new $650,000 habitat. Ringling Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Ruffled cotton beachwear
gives girls an old-fashioned look. New fold-away furniture
makes life with baby easier. Deaf Swiss children learn
to speak by "feeling" sound. Lovely full page color
Santa Fe railroad ad with southwest scene, including
Native American with turquoise jewelry. 35,000 diligent
duffers beat pros on National Golf day, including photos
of Milt Zliser, Barney Laxarus, Harold Hagey, Frank
Deimel, Patty Berg, Lana Kay Roberts, Rickey Reizen,
Ricky Sharpe. Gross photo of gum stuck under counter
in Jim Bledsoe's drugstore in Hobart, Oklahoma. Snowless
skiers beat up a building, Chicago 400 Ski Club, including
Joni King, Al Marks, Gene Leon, Al Bebout and Don Dahl. Out of Stock -

Full page color General Electric
ad with the best color for kitchen appliances ever,
turquoise. Just-released Jet hero tells what it's like
in Red China, Captain Harold E. Fischer, Jr. A college
class 15 years after, Vassar's class of 1940, including
photos of Electa Brush Brown, Susanne Froelicher Holcombe,
Anne Hoyt Spang, Nathalie Wolfe Birnbaum, Rosalind Fradkin
Twohey, Barbara Austin Foote and others. Curious photo
of cleaning the golden goose on the top of the Vordingborg
Castle using a helicopter. Peron vs. Church in Argentina.
Dr. Ralph Lapp explains why "Operation Alert" was unrealistic
in an era of unlimited destruction. Refugee Arab family
happily installed in Oregon, Jacob Marto family Lily,
Odette. Hay and sawdust airdrop to save a plane in Hudson
Bay. Astonishing photos of the horrible crash at the
Le Mans (France) auto race. Pictorial essay - America's
favorite freshwater game fish - color portfolio by Maynard
Reece. Kirkland Washington parents give all night party
for Lake Washington high school graduates. Humorous
photos of the trouble people are having with the new
moving stairs, escalators. Nine young (ages 2-15) owners
of a Milwaukee firm present an annual report. 15 year
reunion at Vassar. 380 young Detroit pianists play "Skaters'
Waltz" together. Cache of early Picassos is found at
his sister's in Spain. Walter Reed girl swimmers are
America's fastest. The US Open, golf, with Jack Fleck
and Ben Hogan. Neat two page color General Motors ad
with red and creme convertible car and Dalmatian dog.
Oops - photos of big tree felled onto the house of the
Arthur Holsten's. Very Good - $48 Good - $38 Fair (All Good, but upper spine is taped and has small label scar in red band) - $18 Fair (Generally Good, but has a margin water mark) - $10

Full page color
ad for Mennen shampoo for men, a first? Neat double
page ad for Rca Victor showing lots of different televisions
with names, descriptions and prices, color. Thomas Maldona
and George Teen break into fishing boat and use the
radio to send out false fire-at-sea and foreign submarine
report, setting off $50,00 coast guard search. Photo
and caption on Emmett Dunne who killed Watters. Photo
of collapsed bridge over the Oconaluftee River in the
Cherokee Indian Reservation. Age of homespun - Part
3. America's arts and skills. Russia's new friendly
pitch - photos. Perilous docking of a DC-4 which is
floated to land after crash-landing on arctic ice -
United States Overseas Airlines. Louisiana sugar strike
turns violent, includes Arthur Borne. Italy - photo
essay. Archie Moore Heavyweight boxer. Humorous illustrated
story about Herring gull and a whole array of fake eggs
and real eggs. Neat full page Champion spark plugs ad
with two different car races, Nascar Daytona Beach Grand
National and the Florida International Grand Prix of
Endurance. Bill Moss and Henry Stribley make a great
pop up tent, Moss tents. Photo essay on Italy, including
single-chair ski lift above Cortina. Adirondack vacationists
go to church by boat for summer services, St. Peter's-by-the-lake,
New York. Out of Stock -

Full color ad for Acrilan sweaters
featuring Debbie Reynolds as a sweater girl. Large suspension
bridge above Capilano River. Another great full page
color Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereal ad with art by Norman
Rockwell - looks like the start of a new series of cereal
box art, these with kids with a string tied around a
finger. Atomic industry growing in the US, including
Walker Cisler, Dr. Robert Charpie, Vernon Pick, J. Carlton
Ward, Merle Thorpe, Newton Steers Jr. A report on Russian
Atomic progress by Charles J. V. Murphy and Arnold Kramish.
A new satellite, the MOUSE, Minimum Orbital Unmanned
Satellite of Earth. Full page color Seagram's Golden
Gin ad with golfing theme, it looks like Ben Hogan.
Funny photo of Helicopter helping a bed fly - it has
a rudder and all. Photo - new aquatic speed record is
set on Lake Ullswater (see also LIFE April 11, 1955).
Full page color (landscape orientation) RC cola, Royal
Crown cola ad with fishing theme, art by Miller. Cordell
Hull obituary. Cool color close-up photos of insects.
Julie Harris in "I am a Camera". Golf secrets feature
by Ben Hogan, great photos and directions. Texas test
of new air- conditioning units. The artist El Greco
used insane men for models. Mormon cowboy horse race
kings, Meshach Tenney7 and Rex Ellsworth (They own Swaps,
and others) by Marshall Smith. William and Emma Neuenschwander
hold a 40 year family reunion, great photos, Bluffton,
Ohio. Out of Stock -

Life Magazine
August 15, 1955 : Color cover - General MacArthur,
an old soldier in a new career.

Photo essay
- How to ease Russia's food crisis, American farmers
give farming lessons to Russians. Full page Lovable
bra ad with some lovely examples in use. Is US Air Force
"survival school" training brutal and degrading? - pictorial
examination of controversial Stead Air Force Base in
Nevada, bending box, broomstick persuasion, and many
other nasty things. West Coast forests suffer worst
fires in 30 years. Nice full page color Anchorglass
ad showing a bunch of different styles including the
white with gold rim my grandma had. Bones found in Iowa
sandpit may be oldest American skeleton, finder Asa
Johnston of Turin, Iowa, photos include Franklin Fenenga,
R.J. Ruppe, W.D. Frankforter, Janathan Davis, Janice
Johnson, Asa Johnston, James Wolpert. US toy train wows
the Indonesians. Pretty French parachutist beats a world
mark but almost drowns. Making of a monumental new Atlas.
Close-up : The Louis Martins of Princess Anne, Maryland
gave their 12 children college educations. North Carolina
rabbi Harold Friedman holds services in bus. Howard
Herd of Pasadena has 26 miniature cannons that pack
a punch. Conscientious objectors eat an atomic diet
in Denver food test. Oklahoma family lives suspended
in a space and saucer house, Gene and Nacy Bavinger.
Vintage vacuum cleaners displayed. Coach Lewis' attracts
football talent to West Virginia University. Thomas
Plaut bicycles off ship "America" during dock strike.
Iowa state fair. Cute photos of Erno and Irma Martin
and children Elenore and Attila Martin arriving in Indianapolis. Good - $40 Fair (All Very Good, but has very minor address label mark in red band) - $38

Beginning in this issue
"The Truman Memoirs" - the most momentous
first 18 days. Adenauer gets German Prisoners of war
back but pays a hard Soviet price. Full page Bell Telephone
ad with Robert C. Price, Marguerite T. Burns and Melvin
F. Held. American League home stretch. National school
crisis, 1,400,000 more students and not enough space,
includes photo of tent school in Inglewood, California.
Another fun full page Ethyl gasoline ad in the "Road
Birds" series, the Raucous Honker. Photo of motorcyclists
wearing gas mask in Los Angeles smog. Wow - full page
color Campbell's tomato soup ad with VERY bright red
tomatoes, bushels of them. The final games of the American
League baseball pennant series. Interesting ad for Du
Pont stretchables, clothes that grow with you (for kids).
Russians pull out of Austria. Miss America's photo album
from age 4 months to today, Sharon Kay Ritchie. Washington
as Truman saw it - photo essay. Blue Yonder Traditions.
Illinois Institute of Technology professor makes bubble-blowing
a serious business, Robert C. Kintner. Full page color
Lustre-Creme shampoo ad with the lovely Rhonda Fleming.
General Motors stages a multimillion-dollar extravaganza
in Chicago, tractors, trucks, more. Paris police art
show of famous fakes. A humorous visit to the new United
States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Old tennis
pro Kramer comes up with bold plan for amateurs. Furriers
bring out a medium-priced item called Alunk. Good - $18

Life Magazine
October 3, 1955 : Color cover -
Rock Hudson, Hollywood's most handsome bachelor at age
29 - what a hunk!.

Full page color De Beers diamonds
ad with fanciful art by Pierre Ino. Dear Mrs. Lindbergh
- women readers of "Gift from the Sea" explain
their own search for inner security to the author, Anne
Lindbergh - photo essay. Full page Toro ad with lawnmower
and all the attachments. Absolutely gorgeous aerial
photo of the Colorado River delta by Fred Binger. Truman
Memoirs, Part 2 - Jackson county, Missouri. Emmett Till
(14-year-old negro boy) is horribly beaten and killed
after allegedly whistling at a white man's wife, John
William Milam and Roy Bryant were acquitted, but the
story gives the feeling they were guilty. Bishop Alfonso
Ferroni is released from Red China prison, also Doroth
Middleton, Sarah Perkins, Frederick Gordon, James Joyce,
Joseph Hyde and others. Nice full page polaroid camera
ad with baseball player Duke Snider. Revolt in Argentina
leads to liberty and freedom from Peron. Boxer Archie
Moore tells what it is like to face Marciano, nice photos.
B-52 bomber is wrecked on ground to insure good air
performance. Toy butterflies on rubber bands. Yacht
"Observer" gets invaded by Booby birds. J.C.
Penney celebrates 80th birthday. Nice photo of farmer
Henry Forget and his trick pig. Good - $26

Life
Magazine October 10, 1955 : Color Cover - Princess
Margaret, a woman making up her mind.

(This is the cover
shown in the "cover portfolio" for the Regular
North American edition for June 13, 1955 issue). World's
Great Religions, part 5 - Judaism. Neat full page color
Seagram's Whisky ad with passport and hotel stickers
from all over the world. Very cute full page ad for
the Rank Organisation (a film and theater company),
with artwork of a Jester. Two page Trans World Airlines
TWA ad with the Super-G Constellation. Neat two page
photo of what looks like flying saucers over New York.
Easing the food crisis in Russia, a pgae in this article
shows about 30 kinds of US farm machinery. Full page
ad for the Willys 4WD Jeep Truck, crossing a big mud
hole. Paris fashions. Iowa State Fair, including rider
on/off a bucking Brahman bull, more. Full page Ferguson
tractors ad with art by Savage. Dr. Konrad Lorenz, adopted
mother goose. Rendezvous with history, part II by Major
General Courtney Whitney, much is about MacArthur. Jimmy
Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much. Volunteers try
out food preserved by radiation, includes John Meyer,
Virginia McGary, Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver,
Colorado. (Rarely found)Good - $42

The Epic of Man, Part 1 - man inherits the earth. Cover
art by Carroll Jones. Football takes over all over.
South Vietnam sacks Bao Dai, elects Diem. Nice two page
Chris Craft ad showing lots of different boats. Multiple
pages of kids toys and other Campbell Kids products,
all with descriptions and prices. Author James Michener
enacts one of his own plots by marrying a Japanese-American
girl in Chicago. Voters in industrially rich Saar reject
Europeanization and rebuff the French. "Brave if brainless
men" of the IRA warm up their war against the British.
Kentucky Doctor, 90, is honored by home town, William
Saunders Reeves of Fleming County. Teen-agers help to
design their first party dresses. Andy Griffith plays
the "Kindest boy in Georgia" in a new Broadway hit "No
time for Sergeants." Sleep girl and her "sleep-ins"
help TV viewers get to bed. Full page Good year tires
ad with skier doing herringbone to demonstrate the tire
tread pattern, color. Ceremony by French Academy makes
Jean Cocteau an "Immortal." Dr. Roentgen's ray has done
strange jobs. Photo of unplanned honeymoon on a deserted
isle : Joseph Richards and Laura Wallace with forced
plane landing. NEAT! - two page color 1956 Oldsmobile
ad with 98 Deluxe Holiday sedan and Super 88 Holiday
coupe. Good - $28

Life Magazine November
14, 1955 : Color cover - the convalescing president
Dwight D. Eisenhower at Fitzsimons Hospital in Denver.

William Woodward Jr. of Long Island is shot by his wife.
Neat double page color Chrysler ad with five different
cars, each posed with an Air Force jet including planes
FU-969, FU-960, FU-909. Princess Margaret consults her
conscience and gives up Townsend. Italian police clear
a mountain infested for centuries by bandits, Aspromonte
area.. Two dreamers find farming anything but a romantic
idyll - Photo essay, Otto and Hansel Mieth Hagel. Bernard
Brussel-Smith creates wood engravings showing hunting
dogs. New tester exerts world's biggest squeeze - 5
million pounds. Little girl's first visit to the Philadelphia
zoo, Gwen Baldwin of Haddonfield, New Jersey, with Herbert
Schoellkopf. Red Chinese now concede "decadent" slit
skirts may be worn. Scents and braille help blind children
learn about flowers. Captain Kangaroo keeps kiddies
quiet in early morning. Two page Santa Fe railroad ad
for new main line between Chicago and Dallas. Archaeology
- Boston man finds statue's head in US and body in Cairo.
Crashed Air Force bomber hits home in East Meadow, Long
Island and sets it on fire. Very unusual full page color
1956 Chevrolet ad with lime- olive green BelAir car.
Nice two page color General Motors ad with 1956 Chevrolet
Bel Air and 1956 Pontiac Star Chief. Neat photo of Bill
Horton (Oklahoma City KWTV) with camera resting on his
shoulder on a special saddle - first of what we see
today. Good - $35 Fair (All Good, nice, but cover has minor scratch) - $28

Great pair of photos of men painting the
RCA Building in New York city. First report on consumer
credit in America – how is it working and not
working, this is probably the start of people getting
into trouble with individual debt, includes photo of
cumbersome credit files at Sears and Roebuck. Photos
of Pasha of Marrakech, Thami el Glaoui, groveling before
Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. The Navy in Antarctica with
Mary H. Cadwalader. Ethiopia photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
I wonder if they were serious, full page Bendix duomatic
washer and dryer ad with family of five all sleeping
in one double bed. Full page color United States Brewers
Foundation beer ad with art by Haddon Sundblom, number
114. Photo of Jack McGrath as his race car bounded into
the air (then flipped and killed him) he was to retire
at end of race, Phoenix, Arizona. Full page Emerson
radio ad with cartoon art by Otto Soglow. The Buffalo
Hunter – Indian art by unknown painter. Equestrian
fashions outside the riding area. Art of the Carnegie
– Willem de Kooning. Solar heating systems for
your home. Jet airplane F-102 with J-57 engine, Richard
Whitcomb, aeronautical engineer, breaking the sound
barrier. Croton Community Nursery School in Croton-on-Hudson,
New York - dad's day, includes Dick Kilcullen, Robert
Northshield, Harrison Kinney, Milton Kail, Marvin Gilman,
Dr. A. Victor Landes, others. Feature on Ethiopia. Robert
Taylor in Quentin Durward. New tools for air reconnaissance
– aerial inspection of the USSR, includes RB-47
airplane. The anatomy of a red spy ring by Isaac Don
Levine. Old Hickory ad with art by Bob Peak. Nice full
page color Arnold, Schwinn and Company bike ad. Delta
Upsilon fraternity at Ohio State University throws a
unique firehouse party.Good - $35 Fair (All Good, nice, but has an address label scar in red band) - $22 Fair (Generally Very Good, but has small library stamps throughout) - $15

Most lavish holiday buying ever
- looks like the start of the nutso Christmas shopping
frenzy we have today. Full page "Road Birds"
Ethyl gasoline ad with the Wide-eyed Gander. Short letter
and photo pertaining to train locomotives, modern Zephyr
and the old Genoa (which just ran on October 13, 1955).
A true science thriller : survival in supersonic bail-out
of George Smith, testing to learn more. Boxer Sugar
Ray Robinson comes back. Pictorial essay - Christmas
legends : 16 of the folk tales that enrich the story
of the Nativity. Why France seldom is free of crisis.
Nice two page color General motors ad with three different
kinds of station wagons. Navy unveils the "Albacore"
prototype of the atomic submarine of the future. Texas
chemistry professor grows snow Christmas tree. French
Alps claim the life of Annapurna climber Louis Lachenal,
he skied over a hidden snow bridge. LOVELY full page
color Southern Comfort whiskey ad with night scene of
river paddle boat, art by James Bingham. Caroling dogs of
Copenhagen Denmark. Colonial Williamsburg gives a bell
and banquet to Sir Winston. Unusual two page Rambler
ad with Custom 4-door hardtop in red, black and white
plus station wagon. Very nice full page color Pepsi
Cola ad by Bawler. Cute full page Black and White Scotch
Whisky ad with Scottie dogs by Morgan Dennis. The famous
model Bettina is now the latest girl of Aly Khan, ex-husband
of Rita Hayworth.Good - $24 Fair (Generally Good, but
spine a bit rough) - $11 Fair (All Good, but
a few page edges have a tear) - $9

Almost all articles pertain
to Christianity, including : Life of Christ as seen
by great artists. Korean orphans get an Oregon home.
Chicago the biggest US archdiocese. New ideas for children
change Sunday schools and help swell enrollment. Photo
of the most amazingly large Sunday School class - Detroit's
Temple Baptist Church, 5,000 attendees, 235 teachers.
Billy Graham rests up at home to save souls. US churches
: their beliefs and practices, a chart of 16 Christian
groups in America. Lovely full page color Jell-o ad
with Santa Claus. Monks of a Kansas Abbey lead a cloistered
life of devotion, St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison,
Kansas. Busy life of a minister, Lowell Swantz in Great
Falls, Montana. Special challenges for catholics. A
lesson in unity - five separate faiths merge in south
India. Holy days in the Holy Land. Excellent full page
color Lockheed Super Constellation ad showing inside
of airplane with flight attendants and passengers. Neat
full page color Plymouth ad with the neatest angle on
the car. Note : Gold cover
is usually a bit rubbed.Good - $30 Fair (All Good, but
cover is lightly rubbed with minor soil) - $15 Fair (All Good, but
cover is lightly rubbed and has small library stamps throughout) - $15